What I think happend on bloody sunday!!!


Youth's started throwing stones at the soldiers of 1para(1st battalion of the parachute regiment.

1para were sent in with battons to clear the rioters and make arests.

This is where it gets unclear.Its now an established fact that shots were fired by the IRA or other gunmen at the paras at some stage of the day.Who fired first is unclear.The paras say they were fired on and returned fire,they rioters/marchers said 1para opend fire with out warning.13 rioters/marchers were killed.

What I think happend is that the paras were shot at first and they returned fire with overwhelming force just as they would in a normal combat situation and as they were trained to.The IRA gunmen melted away but 5 or 6 out of control paras kept on shooting at the crowds.


IMO the IRA has to take some of the blame for what happend that day as IMO they started shooting first but that is no excuse for the way 1 para responded.As I have already said most of the deaths were caused by 5 or 6 1para soldiers who were out of control.


P.S.the IRA leader on the ground that day was Martian McGunis who some have said fired the firts shot that started it all. He is now part of the Northen Ireland government.